How Do You Change Your Email on Bumble?

Tap the cog icon to open Settings, then tap Notification Settings. Choose an option such as New messages, tap Change email address?, and type in the address you want. Bumble then sends an email titled Please confirm your email address with a Confirm email button, so tap it, and check your spam folder if it does not arrive. Bumble says this only changes where you receive notifications. Your login details stay the same.

1. Go to your Profile and tap the cog icon to open Settings.
2. Tap Notification Settings.
3. Select one of the options, such as New messages.
4. Tap Change email address?
5. Enter the email address you want to use.
6. Open the confirmation email from Bumble and tap Confirm email.

The setting sits inside the notification options, so it is easy to miss if you go looking for it among your account details. Tapping into one of the notification options, like New messages, is how you reach it.

Entering the address is not the last step. Bumble sends an email titled Please confirm your email address, and it contains a Confirm email button.

Tap it. If the email does not show up, look in your spam or junk folder before you try again. Automated mail sometimes ends up there, and Bumble itself says to check.

This is the detail that trips men up. Bumble says changing this address only changes where you receive notifications. Your login details stay exactly as they were.

So if you sign in with your phone number, or with Apple, Facebook or Google, nothing about that changes. You log in the same way tomorrow as you did today. The new address simply becomes where Bumble sends its emails to you.

If what you actually wanted was to change how you sign in, this setting will not do it. Ask Bumble's support staff about that instead, through the Help Hub in the app.

It is easy to treat notification emails as clutter. On a dating app, some of them are the reason you reply in time.

If your Bumble emails go to an old address you never open, a message from a woman you like can sit for days before you see it. By then the conversation has cooled, and she has probably moved on to someone who answered. Pointing your notifications at an inbox you read keeps that from happening.

Seeing a message quickly only helps if you do something good with it.

You do not need to answer within seconds. Replying at a normal pace is fine, and constant instant replies can make a man look like he has nothing else going on. What you want to avoid is letting a good conversation sit so long that it goes flat.

When you do reply, give her something to answer. A short line that plays off what she said, or a light question about something she mentioned, keeps things moving. a dating coach's warning about conversations going quiet is that they usually die from being boring: too logical, too much like an exchange of facts. Keep it playful, and once she is clearly enjoying it, suggest a specific day and place to meet.

While you are in Settings, it is worth a quick check of the rest.

• Make sure the notification address is one you read every day.
• Look through the notification options while you are there, so the alerts that matter reach you.
• If your email password is weak or reused, change it. Your email is often the key to your other accounts.

Open Settings with the cog icon on your Profile, tap Notification Settings, pick an option such as New messages, tap Change email address? and enter the new address. Confirm it from the email Bumble sends, and check spam if it does not arrive. This only changes where your notifications go, not how you log in.